Historian, editor, and
educator. Correspondence, memoranda, drafts of writings, speeches, notes,
research material, financial records, legal papers, and a project file from
Burnett's work as editor of
Letters of Members of the Continental Congress,
published from 1921 to 1936; including also material on the Burnett family and
farm in Tennessee, original and edited Civil War correspondence of the Burnett,
Cody, Lightfoot, and McGarity families; and a translation of a cipher used by
the Lee family of Virginia.